“Oda Tropical A Cuatro Voces” poem from Carlos Pellicer

This Video Poem belong to the series “The Video in the Flight of the Poem” directed by Lola Creel about poetry on the beginning of the 20th century in Mexico.

Carlos Pellicer (1897 –1977), was born in Villahermosa, Tabasco, he has been part of the wave of modernist Mexican poets. Pellicer was an enthusiastic traveller, his work is filled with beautiful depictions of nature, and a certain sexual energy that is shared with his contemporary, Octavio Paz.

This Video Poem was produced in the Special Projects Unit of the Nacional Council for Culture and the Arts in México (CONACULTA) that Lola Creel directed from 2000-2004